United Nations (UN)
Rising systemic risk demands a new risk management paradigm
Reinsurers need insurance-linked securities to share burden of climate-related catastrophic risk
Net zero banks playing catch-up in ECB climate review
Banks that aim to align to Paris Agreement still fall short on climate disclosures
Lifetime achievement award: Mark Carney
Risk Awards 2022: The calm at the eye of the storm of post-crisis regulation and climate risk management
Banks seek regulatory guidance on climate transition plans
Lack of agreement on how to identify whether borrowers are converging with net zero targets
Regulators must make firms reveal climate risk – MSCI, FRR
Asset managers need accurate data on carbon emissions, followed by targets to lower them
Not so green machine? Questioning commodities’ credentials
As ESG investors eye commodities, issues around measurement and management are unearthed
UK seeks to take the lead on climate risk standards
New research centre intended to help UK financial firms build better climate risk models
Deal of the year: Deutsche Bank
Asia Risk Awards 2020
Growing sanctions raise compliance risk for energy firms
Sanctions increase risk for energy firms as regulators step up enforcement, writes maritime data expert
Calls to hike climate policy raise risk for oil firms
Increased climate policy will put more oil and gas assets under threat of stranding
The greening of Natixis’s balance sheet
Green weighting factor will be used to adjust the credit RWAs of loans
Burden of implementing US sanctions now firmly on energy firms
Energy firms must now screen operations of every vessel they deal with, writes maritime data expert
Bank-led commodity decorrelation theory rejected by analysts
Idea that bank retreat loosens correlation ‘doesn’t make any sense’
Banks face heavy burden from sanctions in the Middle East
Sanctions side-effects
Lessons from Japan: Communication key to business continuity
Disaster response
Global carbon market gears up for 2011 climate talks
Global carbon market gears up for 2011 climate talks
Ex-UNFCCC chief: no legally binding agreement at Cop16
Yvo De Boer, previous executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) says that there will be no legally binding agreement drawn out at COP16
UK wants to be global hub for green finance
The UK is hoping to re-fire momentum for international climate change agreements at Cancun to help it become the global centre for green finance
Investing in the water theme
Water: source of life, source of returns
The slow growth of the carbon offsets market
Despite the integral role played by forests in efforts to combat global warming, the market for forest-based carbon offsets has been slow to develop. Katie Holliday talks to experts about how this landscape is now changing